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S o u th ern O regon M iner. T hursd ay, F eb ru ary 1, 1945 Gems o f Thought I T IS easy to say how we leva 1 new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibres that knit us to the old.—George Eliot. He who ftaos a child a treat Make, for M i l ring in Heaven’t itreet. And he who gives a child a home Huildi pulacei in Kingdom come. -J O H N MASEFIELD. GOD IS M Y CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L . S c o tt The story thus ta r: A ltar graduating from Wrst Point. Robert Scott wins b li wing« at Kelly Field and take* ap combat Bylas, Wben the war b re a k i out he la an Instructor and Is told be Is too old lor combat Syln(. He appeals to several Generals and Is anally given an oppor tunity to gel Into the tg b t. He dies a bomber into India, where be Is made a terry pilot, but this does not satisfy him. After visiting General Cbenaaull be gels k Klttybaw k, and soon becomes a "one an a ir force" over Burm a. Later be la d r commanding officer of Ute 3Jrd b ie r Group. MaJ. Alison gets three obers one day and lands in the river, plane sinks, but the Chinese gel It •ut by a 1,900-yrarold method. SEW ING CIRCLE N EEDLECRAFT Not Even One Yard Per Apron IJ ttlu inatarlal, easy slitc h rry, mah« Ideai hSSlMS Klfts P a tirli) 7377 rontalns transfer pattern uf inotlfs; p a tir m i; tf(- rrctlons Send your o rd rr lo: W-N-U- R E.LLA 5E engine, or carry in the mechanics and the tools with which to re p a ir the bad one. In every organization there is a l ways one person who holds up the morale, some one who makes the darker moments brighter and who can bring a little sunshine into the tense reality of war. Out in the China theatre, and especially In the 23rd Fighter Group, my most unfor getable character was Lieut. Henry Elias. This pilot was a Southerner, like most of the others In the China skies. When I first reached Heng yang he was acting as assistant op erations officer to A jax Baumler. He had a reply for every person, and a come-back to every Joke. He was definitely a m orale builder, and you can ask anyone if they’re not as valuable at the front as am m uni tion. the night the Fleet landed and the night I had been kidding Henry Sewing C lrrle N r r d lr r r a lt llepl. Elias. Hue 1311 Man t'raurlsco S, t alli. Next morning we got into the a ir Encluae IS cents tur Pattern before daylight and went for Lake No_______________ Puyang Hu. near Nanchang. where Since Time is not a person we the Japs were moving the Chinese Name—— —__ ___ ____ ___——. can overtake when he is gone, rice out by Junks and barges—rob let us honor him with mirth and Addr+a» - — ----- bing the breadbasket of China In the cheerfulness of heart while he yearly rape of the rice. H ill took passing.—Goethe. eight of the P-40'a and I took the An inconvenience is only an other eight. adventure wrongly considered. Elias was on Tex H ill’s wing. We —G. K. Chesterton. split at Nanchang and my eight went to the South to catch some gunboats that had been reported In With the trouble that the Brit the Sintze-Hukow Strait, near Kuki- ish Huj is having at the present ang, coming from the Yangtse to time with the “Congress” in India, CHAPTER the Lake. I heard H ill call that he it is curious to recollect that this had caught the rice ships and was movement wus started In 1885 When stranger things would hap burning them. L a te r he told me Inrgely through the work of an pen. we talked about things of the that he found twenty-six of them, English member of the Indian civ sort which had once been told in junks and steel barges; he sank il service. A. O. Hume, ut the sug story books. All of us agreed that some and saw others with their sails Elias had been on several raids gestion of the then Viceroy, Lord when this w ar was over, there would on fire, floating for shore where the be nothing that had ever happened and had shot down two Japanese DufTerin. hungry Chinese coolies would sal in fiction that wouldn't have actually when I heard the first joke about Originally named the “Indian He’d been on an attack to vage the rice. ; happened In this battle of the uni- him. National Congress,” it Is not, us Through the four passes at the Nanchang, and as the ships turned ! verse. F or instance: Japs Elias was right on T ex’s wing. | r p A C H o f these nprons tukes in the United Stutes, the title of Likiang is a city in China fa r up for home in the fading light of late but on the fourth pullout he dropped I \ 1(, ss t h a n o n e y a r d t 0 m u jte . a legislative body. It is a political afternoon, some one in the re a r of on the big, northern loop of the is so party—the largest und best organ ! Yangtse-Kiang. It is China, yes, but the formation observed something behind the formation, perhaps to T h e c o lo rfu , e m b ro id e ry ized in India, although its m em Now to help relieve con- shoot at something H ill hadn’t seen. sin le eyen Q youngsU>r ju s t peculiar Up ahead there were five that part of China is as wild as Tibet bership in 1941 wus only a mil (gestion and irritation Maybe he'd seen a Jap fighter and learning could do it. and Arabia. The people are called x in upper bronchial lion and a hulf, or u ratio of had gone for it; we knew there were tubes, muscular soreness or tightness, | "Lolos,” and they must be descend 1 in 259 of the total population. eight Zeros supposed to be over Nan coughing spasms—most voting mothers ants of Genghis Khan. I had flown chang. Elias didn't return with the rub Vicks Vapoftubon throat,chest and over the place, for it was just North flight, and for two days we carried back at bedtime. And at once VapoRub of the ferry route from Assam to him as "m issing.” Kunming, and I had seen the fiat Then the Chinese net reported that clearing South of the village that a group of Chinese soldiers had seen to upper bronchial could have been an emergency land a lone Am erican P-40 engaged by tubes with its special ing field. I noted that it was close four Japanese Zeros. The A m eri medicinal vapors to nine thousand feet above sea lev With bottle brushes scarce, use can had fought them but his ship el, and therefore not a field to use had been shot down. The American waxed paper from bread to scour chest and back unless one had to. had jumped out in his parachute and bottles. It does the jyb well. surfaces like a Capt. Charlie Sawyer had crash- — •— four Japanese had strafed him on wanning poultice. landed just South of there, closer to the way down. When wringer rolls begin to lose So soothing, comforting . . .VapoRub Talifu, and had been unable to iden The body had been found, with the their grip, the glaze can be re invites restful sleep and keeps on work tify himself. While the wild-looking identification flag number listed. moved by roughening the rolls ing for hours to relieve distress. A nd. . . Lolo tribesmen were getting set to The pilot’s name was Lieutenant with coarse sandpaper. Wipe with ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this spe execute him with ancient-looking Elias. All of us watched for Japs a damp cloth. Use sandpaper with cial penetrating-stimulating action. i t ’s flint-lock muskets, Sawyer said the bailing out, so that we could shoot discretion, of course. the best known home remedy for re holes in the barrels looked twice as lieving miseries A one or two down for Elias, but we big as fifty-calibre bores. Just at o f c h ild r e n 's didn’t get the chance. When you have a bottle or jar colds. T ry itl V VAPOR US the crucial moment, however, when We sent Captain Wang down to that is difficult to open, use a his fate looked darkest, some new Kian to get E lias’s body. Wang had lighted match. Run this quickly a rriv a l in the party saw the identi to travel a hundred and sixty miles around the edge of the bottle or fication card that Sawyer bad been by buffalo cart, by alcohol bus, and jar and It will come open imme SN A PPY FACTS pointing to. I t was inscribed in v a ri war O i" î,u re on foot, but he finally got there. The diately. ous languages, and with pictures. These pilots are tired out by al trip took him twenty days. When — • — ABOUT The new a rriv a l didn't recognize the most constant alert without re lie f for the body of our lost pilot finally a r When discarding worn bath tow inform ed PoWder. Chinese flag, or any of the lan 21 days. RUBBER rived a,’ the field from which he had els, save the best parts and use who use Calo« loc., guages, or the Generalissimo's sig McKeiMX* * J “ 0 last takei: off. it was in a Chinese for making washcloths or bath P-40's with their sleek silhouettes nature “ chop” —but be saw a star. Bi)Js>-Po r,' C<* .u coffin that Wang had gotten at Kian mitts. As it happened, it was the star of showing wheels up and everything In — • — We placed the flag over the grim proper order. But off to the flank India over the im prin t in Hindustani. rem inder of w ar and sent it by Wben dyeing wearing apparel Then the tribesman pointed to the in almost the position of the number- transport to Kunming, to lie beside it is a good idea to run a few three man in a Vee form ation, was same star on the wing of Sawyer’s I v e r y gas m ask issued b y the his other brother pilots in that Bud lengths of thread through an in ship— the insignia of the A rm y A ir one ship with its wheels extended U. S. A rm y contains l V i dhist graveyard in Yunnan. side seam. When finished, these Some one called on the radio. "Hey • Force. Sawyer was saved, and later pounds a f ru b b e r. And so it went: tragedy—humor threads may be removed to fur he was feasted on wild buffalo and Elias, who's that flying in form ation with you, with their wheels down?’ Even now, with the rubber situation —tragedy. For on the same raid I nish an exact match if repairs rice wine. improved, it is Important that car h ad'led the other eight ships, with are needed. As the words sank into the con But why? H ere in the wilds of — a— owners have their tires recapped the Lolo country, where very few sciousness of the flight, and of Elias elements led by Holloway, Schlel, In time. In time means when the If an enamel pan boils dry, do and O'Connell, and had caught the white men had ever been, the tribes especially, their ominous signif tread Is worn smooth, but before icance became apparent. Elias Jap gunboats, ten of them, at Sintze- not plunge it from the hot range men were more fa m ilia r with the the fabric shows. They were more into cold water. Let it cool first, white star of the A ir Force than with jerked his head around and looked Hukow Strait. I t is expected by industry any written language. We learned at his wing man. Even to an In than likely coming to Puyang Hu to then soak before washing. — • — authorities th a t the ea rly experienced eye. the silhouette was convoy those rice barges—but we the principal reason later. period w ill bring a Corduroy needs no ironing. It was a Jap Model were going to interfere with their A report had come in to General unmistakable for from 16,000 to rendezvous. Gently press out the water with Chennault's headquarters that a na 1-97. one of the old fixed landing 40,000 long tons of rubber Even as we circled them from six towels, but don't wring or twist. tive village in the Lolo country, be gear types. The entire formation fo r the production o f latex tween Lake T a li and Likiang. was tried at once to get it as they finally teen thousand feet. I think they knew Pin up skirt or pants by waist foam sponge used in cushions realized what it was. But they had they were going to have lots of trou band. Brush against nap when under siege by the Burmese north JO INOCULATE WITH o f various types and in fur Just as he rec ble. They had to stay almost In dry. em tribesmen who had crossed the the laugh on Elias niture and mattresses. — a— Salween, perhaps under the direc ognized the Jap. the enemy pilot evi line, nose-to-stem, for they were go tion of the Japanese. Two of us. dently recognized the P-40's in the ing through the narrow strait. We A small vegetable brush is an Holloway and I, were sent to look tw ilight before darkness—perhaps circled w arily for a minute, looking effective tool when using paint the sky over for enemy fighters, then and varnish remover, especially the place over in two P-40's. We he saw the leering sharks* mouths were told by the General that we F or as Elias shoved the nose of his spiralled down. As soon as we got on carved surfaces. close enough to the Jap ships to see could determ ine whether the town ship straight down and dove for him • Farmesi report that inoculation was under siege by noting whether the Jap pulled his ship straight up distinctly, we noticed that the sea with N I T R A G I N makes bigger yidda men were jumping over the side and climbed for the sky. Later, or not the usual "pedestrian traffic and surer crops. N I T R A G I N is good was passing in and out of the city when our imaginations began to em into the water Only a few seemed crop insurance fo r every planting o f to have remained to fire the anti gate. All the cities are walled, and broider the joke. Elias took the kid clovers, a lfa lfa , leaprdaza, soybeans, are obviously very fa r from roads ding in good part and always had a a irc ra ft guns, and Schiel and Hollo Marshal Ferdinand Foch was other legumes. I t costs a few cents an way silenced most of those with comeback. or from civilization. guest of honor at a dinner. acre, takes only a few minutes to m ix A small two-seater biplane, a th eir in itial pass We made our observation and re “Why do the French attach so with tha seed. I t ’s tha oldest, most I think most of the ammunition turned with the report. The village Fleet, came to Hengyang from much value to their good man widely used inoculant. Produced by was besieged, and we had seen the Kweilin one day with a Chinese of had been fired at us while we c ir ners?” began one discourteous trained scientists in a modern labora horsemen encamped a h alf mile ficer. We looked the little ship over cled at sixteen thousand feet, for non-French guest. “Of what im tory. G et it, in tha yellow can marked around the city wall. We loaded up as it came into the field wide open we were the whole show now. We’d N itra g in , from your seed dealer. and went back with six eighteen- at some seventy-five miles an hour. rake the steel decks from stem to portance is politeness? I can’t see fStt baablati tall haw la «raw battar cosh, feed, "W e now have Just the bait we stern and then swing out low to the anything in it but wind.” kilogram frags on the wing racks oad M il bulldlnf crape. W rite laday. “So it is. However, neither is and plenty of fifty-calibre am m uni need,” I said. "Lieutenant E lias, I w ater and come back with quarter Salaw, Eiparlaiaat $tw- there anything but wind in pneu ing shots from the beam. We were tion. I also carried a V ery pistol want you to borrow that Fleet from the Chinese. I know a trick to make so low that we were actually shoot matic tires,” replied ‘the hero of and all colors of shells. As we circled the town, we could the Japs lose lots of ’face’ and a ir ing up at the decks of the boats. I the Marne’ with dignity. “Still it saw many human heads above the serves the important function of see the villagers watching us; then planes." Elias had laid down his Opera w ater as the Japs tried to swim easing the jolts along life’s high we dove on the besiegers and TK NITUSIN CO , UN N. MOTH, MIUNAUKU 12. ML bombed them from a thousand fe e t tions reports and was listening a t from the boats, and I fired at them way.” The lines of prehistoric cavalry tentively. "This ought to get you Those bullets ricocheted from the broke and retreated towards the Sal promoted,” I went on. "Now you w ater into the steel side of the gun Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the ween and Burm a. We machine- get that plane and service it tonight, boat and went on through. As my trouble to help loosen and expel gunned them until they spread in then early in the morning you take range would reach the “ sweet spot’ germ laden phlegm, and aid nature panic. Then I used the V ery pistol, of? for Hankow. Alison, Baumler, of some 287 yards, where the six to soothe and heal raw, tender, in - shooting first green lights, then red. and I w ill be along later and will lines of tracers and armor-piercing firm ed bronchial m ucous m e m branes. Tell your druggist to sell you Holloway said it was the best dis a rriv e over the Jap city before you Fifties converged, it would appear a bottle of Creomulsion with the un play of fireworks he’d ever seen. We do.’* Elias was looking at me in as though an orange-colored hole the derstanding you must like the way It checked up for several days, but the wonder. "Then, when you get there, size of a flour barrel was being quickly allays the cough or you are raiders hadn’t come back, and nor- fly over the enemy airport at thirty- burned into the side of the Jap ves to have your money back. We're glad that In spite o f w ar shortages n al pedestrian traffic was passing five hundred feet—that’ll keep you sel at the water-line. you can still get Smith Bros. Cough Drops. We S-ed along the ten-ship line through the city wall. Holloway and just above their sm all-calibre fire W e’ll be gladder still when Victory leu us for Coughs. Chest Colds. Bronchitis I, with two of the G eneral’s P-40’g, and they can’t shoot accurately that and shot at them all from both sides make all everybody needs. Smith Bros.— Black or Menthol—still 54. had stopped a war. low with the big stuff. Over the field On the second pass, two of the ves The white star of the A ir Force you fly with one wing low, kind of sels were listing, and others were SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS had been seen by those villagers, skidding, cutting your switch on and smoking. On the fourth attack, sev THAO and they had told the surrounding of? so the Japs w ill think you're en out of the ten were smoking and BLACK OR M IN T M O L — country that we were friends. P er either wounded or over there with a burning and some of these were on haps the constant sight of transports bad engine.” the bottom with their masts barely For Yon To Feel Well from India to China and return had Elias was trying to figure out out of water. Photographs taken Which nf yo«r two hnsbamlt 24 hours •vsry »vary day, 7 days evary made the big white star a fa m ilia r whether I was serious or not. Then later from an observation plane week, never ’ et stopping, tht kidneys Slur Is coning hone tonight. . • symbol. At any rate, the Lolos who I added; "W e’ll be up there in the showed that seven had sunk Im medi waits matter ir 1____________ from the blood. It more people were aware of how the were about to execute Sawyer rec sun, and as fast as the Zeros come ately in the strait, and that the oth kidneys must constantly remove sur ognized it, and to them it meant more up for you, we’ll knock them down. er three had sunk within a thousand plus fluid, excess acids and other waste matter that cannot stay in tha blood than written languages and sealed A fter all, Elias, if they get you. a yards of the battle area. without injury to health, there would orders. Such Is the strangeness of Fleet isn't worth much." be better understanding of rAy the I was so happy, so excited and whole system la upset wben kidneys fail this global war. But by now Lieutenant Elias was eager, that I tried to be glamorous to function properly. Burning, scanty or too frequent urina M ore true fiction came out of the walking out and calling over his that morning. A fter the fourth a t Constipation may make diente formulated over 50 tion sometimes warns that something Lolo country during the autumn. A shoulder: "No sir, Colonel, I just tack I had called to re-form and anyone a M r. or Mrs. Glum. is wrong. You may suffer nagging back years ago. Uncoated or ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatie F e rry Command pilot, Lieutenant want to be a plain pilot— I don’t head for the rendezvous point to the Take Nature’s Remedy (N R candy coated, their action is pains, getting up at nights, swelling. Aronson, "lost an engine” —which want to be no ball of fire.” Tablets). Contains no chem dependable, thorough, yet Southwest. But as the ships left the Why not try Doon's P ilh l You will icals, no minerals, no phenol be using a medicine recommended tha entie, as millions of N R ’s means that his engine failed—on his Well, we saw the value of Elias target, I saw something I had to go untry over. Doan’s stimulate the func derivatives. N it Tablets aro ave proved. Get a 25^ trip from Assam to Kunming. He when we lost him for in this second back for. It was a Japanese flag, tion of the kidneys and help them to d ifferen t— a rt different. Convincer Box todayl All flush out poisonous waste from the barely made the big meadow that battle around Hi.nan he failed to re waving defiantly from the mast of blood. They contain nothing harmful. Purely vegetable—a combi druggists. Caution: Take was South of the town of Likiang, turn from the strafing raid of Sep one of the sunken gunboats. For Gat Doan's today. Use with confidence. nation of 10 vegetable ingre- only as directed. At all drug stores. in the hairpin loop of the Yangtse. tem ber 2. 1942 We had taken six getting caution, and with the other A fter several days we went in there teen P-40’s bark to Hengyang when seven planes speeding away to th ■ to look the improvised landing-field we had gotten them in shape to fight, rendezvous point, I dove to s tra f over, in the hope that we could fly and had landed there just about the flag in a gesture of hate. another transport to him with a good dark to surprise the Japs. T h a t’s S T O / t u . . P77W - (TO B E C O N T IN U E D ) XX Congrega in India a Party, Not a Legislative Body p lt f r r u r e s % /IC IC S w MA«* a r t in CUOI -«“• FARMERS F 4 £air IT PAYS BIG I k m i i m peace Foch Points Out That Wind, Too, Has Value REGoodrichl pirst in rubber d ii Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On CREOMULSION Kidneys Must Work W ell- 5# 1 OR l*R-'w "'! C D oans P ills ALL-VEGETABLE C h '/ ì ì / ó C ì m u / u LAXATIVE TO-NIGHT/ TOMORROW ALRIGHT HR
